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All Quotes by author - Cynthia Weil
" Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records. "
Get
Writing
Records
" A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job. "
Way
Your
Because
" Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. "
Done
More
Past
" Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house. "
Building
Nervous
House
" Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years. "
Better
Years
Through
" But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with. "
Want
Someone
Over
" Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature. "
Say
Young
Writing
" I can't seem to write young enough anymore. "
Enough
Write
Seem
" It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn. "
Learn
Fast
Boot Camp
" I wanted to write for Broadway. "
Broadway
Wanted
Write
" My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself. "
Nature
Feel
Proud
" On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off. "
Style
Own
Someone
" Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high. "
Love
Love Is
Sharing
" She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King. "
King
She
Day
" That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them. "
Writing
Challenge
Creative
" That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws. "
Creative
Walk
Time
" The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop. "
Business
Today
Find
" The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental. "
You
Artist
Freedom
" There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. "
Writing
Great
Best
" We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it. "
Creative
Ever
Figure
" We are the yin and the yang of the creative process. "
Yin
Process
Creative
" We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive. "
Gone
Love
Together
" We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were. "
Been
Were
Scene
" We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. "
Wrote
Would
Us
" You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it. "
Door
Believe In Yourself
You
" You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. "
Learning
You
Process
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